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Sunspot 1520 Fires a Flare
Remember that cool animation I posted earlier of AR1520 and how I said there's no guarantee it wouldn't unleash an…
A Shimmering, Simmering Sunspot
This quick animation made by astrophotographer Alan Friedman shows a 30-minute view of sunspot 1520, a large region of magnetic…
Astrophotos: Monster Sunspot Evolution
Caption: A 5-day sequence of sunspot group AR1520. Credit: Shahrin Ahmad, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Click to see a larger version.…
Things on the Sun: Zipper, Airplane and Spots
Caption: ISS Solar Transit. Credit: Fred Locklear. A couple of awesome pictures of the Sun today from amateur astrophotographers: Above…
NASA To Launch The Finest Mirrors Ever Made
This Wednesday NASA will launch its High Resolution Coronal Imager (HI-C) mission from White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico,…
The Sun Blasts Out an X1-Class Solar Flare
An active region on the Sun, AR1515, has been putting on quite a show over the last 8 days, sending…
Fireworks from the Sun
From July 2 to July 5, the Sun shot off a whopping eighteen M-class solar flares. Most originated from Active…
New Warning System Designed to Keep Astronauts Safe from Solar Storms
A new solar storm prediction system based in Antarctica could provide astronauts in space warning time of over two hours…
Dancing Plasma on the Sun
This video from the Solar Dynamics Observatory shows about 18 hours worth of a stellar show of suspended plasma from…
Astrophotos: Crazy Solar Prominences
We've got three cool images of the hot Sun submitted by various astrophotographers! Raymond Gilchrist enhanced his image from June…